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NEW WOMEN, OLD AND NEW

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1999

Sally Mitchell
Affiliation:
Temple University

Abstract

DESPITE SOME TWENTY YEARS of scholarship in the field, core questions such as “what is a New Woman?” and “what is New Woman fiction?” still remain vexed and all too often need more precise definition. Yet one can say that for all the conflicts of meaning and emphasis between sexual and political, discursive and actual, or caricature and didactic, the feminist rediscovery of the New Woman during the late 1970s has not only opened the canon but has also begun a transformation in the way we understand the entire fin de siècle.

Type
Review Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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